.. _controlcenter_userguide:

Control Center User Interface
=============================

To begin using |c3|, open your web browser to the host and port where |c3-short| is running. For example, if you are running the software on a host called ``controlcenter``
and using the default port (9021), you would open the URL ``http://controlcenter:9021``.

For details on how to change the port used by |c3-short|, see :ref:`controlcenter_configuration`.

When you first open |c3-short|, you will see a set of charts that are showing you how your pipelines are
running, and a menu allowing you to choose between different functions of |c3-short|.

.. _overview:

.. figure:: images/c3overview.png
   :scale: 50%
   :align: center

   |c3| user interface

The |c3| user interface supports three main modes. The first which you can see in the above image is Stream Monitoring mode. See :ref:`controlcenter_userguide_monitoring` for more
information on using Stream Monitoring.

Additionally, you can navigate between the other modes using the left hand sidebar. See :ref:`controlcenter_userguide_connect` for more information about using Kafka Connect configuration and :ref:`controlcenter_userguide_alerts` to learn more about creating triggers and actions.

Contents:

.. toctree::
   systemhealth
   monitoring
   connect
   alerts
   clusters
   topics